WOW!!!….Mexico doesn’t want their “OWN” people!
Three cheers for Arizona!
The shoe is on the other foot and the Mexicans from the State of Sonora, Mexico do not like it. Can you believe the nerve of these people? It’s almost funny.
The State of Sonora is angry at the influx of Mexicans into Mexico!!!
Nine state legislators from the Mexican State of Sonora traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona’s new employer crackdown on illegals from Mexico.
It seems that many Mexican illegals are returning to their hometowns and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked off.
In January 2008, a delegation of nine legislators from Sonora (the Mexican state immediately south of Arizona) came to Tucson to express concerns that Arizona’s recently enacted Legal Arizona Workers Act (an employer sanctioned law which imposed penalties on employers who knowingly hired persons lacking documentation of their status to legally work in the United States) would have a “devastating” effect on Sonora. After a press conference held at the offices of Project PPEP a day prior to the delegation’s meeting with Hispanic legislators, the Tucson Citizen reported the Sonoran representatives posing questions such as the following:
At a news conference, the Sonoran legislators said that Sonora — Arizona’s southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns — cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers [in Tucson] return to their hometowns without jobs or money.
They want to tell [Arizona legislators] how the law will affect Mexican families on both sides of the border.
“How can they pass a law like this?” asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano Gamez, who represents Nogales.
“There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona,” she said in Spanish.
“Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs,” she said.
Amparano said the Mexican legislators are already asking the federal government of Mexico for help for Sonora.
We will have space for them in Ridgewood soon
Mexicans I know here work harder than the lower class natives they typically displace.
100 years ago, Italians were the Mexicans. We busted our asses, and now our kids speak English and attend top tier Universities.
It would be hypocritical for me as an Italian American to deny these people the same opportunity. I guess I’m not a “Fuck You, I Got Mine” type.
the article shows the Mexican government sends people it does not want
James, I read the article and I don’t see that in it. It is not the Mexican government “sending” people it does not want, as occurred during the Mariel exodus with Cuba. The article is about illegal immigrants coming on their own, who will find it harder to work in Arizona due to Arizona sanctions on businesses hiring them, and therefore returning to Mexico where jobs are unavailable. Mexico’s uncaring attitude about our jobs and economy is not be helpful to us, but it is our responsibility to police the border, our responsibility to enforce our workplace laws.
The article clearly shows the US is being used as a place of employment illegally, but you don’t see anything that would allude to their being bused to borders from prisons, or anything remotely like that.
from the article:
“Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs,” she said.
“What do we do with the repatriated?” he asked. “As Mexicans, we are worried. They are Mexicans but they are also people — fathers and mothers and young people with jobs — who won’t have work in Sonora.”
The Mexican government also heavily protects its southern border to stop in the influx of even-poorer immigrants from Central America. No due process there. It’s all barking dogs and guns.
As it should be Declan.